linux-kernel - Re: [patch] tools, vm: new option to specify kpageflags file

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Message-Id: <20180130160041.ced8e9bbb4741494147f476f@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:00:41 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:     Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tools, vm: new option to specify kpageflags file

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:01:01 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> page-types currently hardcodes /proc/kpageflags as the file to parse.  
> This works when using the tool to examine the state of pageflags on the 
> same system, but does not allow storing a snapshot of pageflags at a given 
> time to debug issues nor on a different system.
> 
> This allows the user to specify a saved version of kpageflags with a new 
> page-types -F option.
> 

This, methinks:

--- a/tools/vm/page-types.c~tools-vm-new-option-to-specify-kpageflags-file-fix
+++ a/tools/vm/page-types.c
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ static void usage(void)
 "            -N|--no-summary            Don't show summary info\n"
 "            -X|--hwpoison              hwpoison pages\n"
 "            -x|--unpoison              unpoison pages\n"
-"            -F|--kpageflags            kpageflags file to parse\n"
+"            -F|--kpageflags filename   kpageflags file to parse\n"
 "            -h|--help                  Show this usage message\n"
 "flags:\n"
 "            0x10                       bitfield format, e.g.\n"
_